Lucie Skeaping celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the ground-breaking vocal group I Fagiolini, in conversation with their founder and director Robert Hollingworth.
I Fagiolini Profile: EMS 5 March
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Enjoyed the programme very much. I bow, of course to RH's scholarship, but I am always a touch sceptical about the bees some academics have in their bonnets. I refer of course to his notion that the relation of 3 to 2 as practised by Monteverdi was not as we generally interpret it today. The final piece (Laudate Pueri) in which he took the triple time slowly and the duple time fast seemed somehow 'wrong' to me. But who knows?
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Nevilevelis
Originally posted by ardcarp View PostEnjoyed the programme very much. I bow, of course to RH's scholarship, but I am always a touch sceptical about the bees some academics have in their bonnets. I refer of course to his notion that the relation of 3 to 2 as practised by Monteverdi was not as we generally interpret it today. The final piece (Laudate Pueri) in which he took the triple time slowly and the duple time fast seemed somehow 'wrong' to me. But who knows?
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Nevilevelis
Originally posted by ardcarp View PostThanks. It's available from you know who....
...in translation. But I'll try to get hold of a library copy.
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostThe final piece (Laudate Pueri) in which he took the triple time slowly and the duple time fast seemed somehow 'wrong' to me.
Here is a good ed. of that Laudate pueri from Seva morale et spirituale of 1641. The note-values are intact.
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Yes I too very much admire I Fagiolini. Thanks for the link to the score of Laudate Pueri. I just wonder what RH would do to the more familiar Vespers of 1610 where Monteverdi time after time swings back and forth from duple to triple time in such a joyful way (think of the 'Alleluja' section in the opening movement, or in the motet Audi Coelum or indeed in the Magnificat). The relationship seems to work so well when it's natural and unforced.
Interesting (with Easter looming) that in a very ancient King's/Willcocks LP of Byrd's Haec Dies, the 'et laetemur' section is taken very slowly. This seems to foreshadow Hollingsworth...but is all wrong to me.
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